How to Organize your Blog Photos

It is no surprise that bloggers take a TON of photos. Sometimes, 30-40 pictures have to be taken in a single day, and that’s just for a handful of posts. They can really add up fast. This post contains affiliate links.

It is important that you organize your blog photos so that you aren’t searching for that one pancake shot from last week or the photo of your children playing with their review toy earlier today. Trust me, even the newer photos can get lost in the abyss if you aren’t organizing them properly.

So, what is the answer to organizing your blog photos to save you time and frustration?

How to Organize your Blog Photos

FOLDERS! AND SUBFOLDERS!
Instead of simply dumping the contents of your phone or camera onto the desktop or a random downloads folder after each photo shoot, create folders dedicated just to your blog photos.
A good way to start is to create a main folder titled “Blog Photography.” From there, create subfolders – one for each main category on your blog. For example, recipes, travel, product reviews, and parenting should all have their own subfolder in your blog photos folder.

After you’ve done a photo shoot for a recipe, open the recipes folder and create a new subfolder with the recipe’s name. Dump all the photos in there. If you have time, remove the ones that are blurry, or you just don’t plan to use. Try to only keep the ones that will be going on the blog once edited.

DON’T FORGET THE BACKUP!
Every week, you should backup your blog photos on an external hard drive. You will want to do these so that nothing is lost. There is little worse than having to restage a photo shoot just because something went wrong and your photos vanished.

Copy your blog photo folders over the same way you have them set up so that they stay organized on your external hard drive as well.

Plus, stock photos are usually more generic, and you may be able to use them for more than one blog post. It helps to have them handy in folders based on the subject or theme of the photo. Common stock photo folders for bloggers may be food, kids, business (pictures of desks or computers), people, and pets.

Same goes for graphics you might purchase. If you are like me and obsessed with buying fonts and graphics, you need to organize these images, as well.

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Jennifer is the founder of A Magical Mess. She is married to a wonderful man, and together they live with their three rescue dogs. Jen is an entrepreneur at heart. Hobbies and interests include working, reading, and learning new things. Typical life status = more mess than magic.

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